A Traveler’s Needs
It’s one of the most intriguing director-star pairings in world cinema: Korean auteur Hong Sang-soo and French icon Isabelle Huppert. This is their third film together, after In Another Country (from 2012) and Claire’s Camera, six years later; it is another witty, elusive, airy vignette, talky and musingly cerebral in the manner of Rohmer or Resnais. Huppert is a woman in Seoul making a living teaching French and perplexing her students (and the audience) with the question of who she is and what she is doing there.
